Moncada Cartel

The Moncada Cartel was a Colombian drug cartel which split from the Medellin Cartel in 1992 after the murder of Gerardo Moncada. His widow Judy Moncada allied with the powerful Medellin associate Don Berna to fight against Pablo Escobar, as Don Berna was a friend of the late Gerardo as well as Judy's brother Jaime, who was killed by Escobar himself. The cartel had a partnership with the Cali Cartel and AUC paramilitary against Escobar from 1992 to 1993, but Moncada disagreed with the Cali Cartel about raiding Gerardo Moncada's old labs (now controlled by Escobar) and over the ownership of Medellin after Escobar's doom. In April 1993, Carlos Castano Gil failed to kill Moncada with a car bombing at her mansion, leading to war between the Cali-AUC alliance and the Moncada organization.